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A gor­geous new film cel­e­brates life in London

05 Jun 2017

Words by Trevor Johnston

Lon­don Sym­pho­ny is a col­lage of scenes cap­tur­ing the rich­ness and poet­ry of life in the British capital.

The sym­pho­ny” movie was a very big deal in the silent era. These works took the form of extend­ed, non-nar­ri­tive mon­tages which linked togeth­er a sequence of ran­dom moments whose only real con­nec­tion was sim­ple geog­ra­phy. It was then for the view­er to extract any social or polit­i­cal sub­text from the images, and some­times, the tone of the accom­pa­ny­ing score.

Direc­tor Alex Bar­rett has cho­sen to exhume this form as a way to cel­e­brate life in Lon­don, and his sec­ond fea­ture, Lon­don Sym­pho­ny, is set to receive its world pre­mière the 2017 Edin­burgh Film Fes­ti­val. The aim of the film was to cap­ture a city at a very spe­cif­ic point in its his­to­ry, and the sto­ry” is told over four chap­ters intend­ed to rep­re­sent the move­ments of a symphony.

Above is a lit­tle taster trail­er for the fin­ished film which goes on gen­er­al release 3 Sep­tem­ber, 2017. For fur­ther details on the film head to lon​don​sym​ph​film​.com.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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